Team Novo Nordisk posed an interesting question on their website …

WOULD YOU GIVE BACK YOUR DIABETES DIAGNOSIS?

There are two sides to the question for me …

If I didn’t have T2 diabetes, I wouldn’t have to deal with…

• Diet control
• Counting carbs
• Testing my blood sugars twice a day
• Twice a year blood tests to check my A1C

On the other hand … the diagnosis did …

• Give me the kick in the pants I needed to improve my overall health
• Got me into cycling in a big way
• Through cycling (and Tour de Cure), introduced me to some of the best friends I’ve had in my life.

To be fair … I really like cycling. At this point I wouldn’t want to give it up for anything. Maybe I would have rediscovered my love of cycling without the diabetes diagnosis … but I kind of doubt it. I owned a bicycle for years before I got into riding it again.

Of course, if I hadn’t gotten into cycling again, I would have saved a lot of money on bikes, upgrades, kit, etc. 🙂